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Book Review

Creators:

Field, M.

Abstract:

This CABE publication, issued as a download fromCABE’s website at the end of 2009, picks up thecall for changes in ‘the way housing is delivered inBritain’ that shaped the design body’s earlier 2009report No More Toxic Assets: ‘the housing boomwas all about chasing volumes and shareholderreturn... [while] far too often, delivering poor quality’.With the housebuilding industry beginning to find itsfeet again, CABE commissioned this collection ofviews ‘to fuel a debate about the future for housingin the next economic cycle’, and to explore newroutes and models to achieve a housing quality andquantity ‘so conspicuously lacking to date’